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Party-list Rep. Marissa Magsino seeks a congressional review on the implementation of the ‘Inter-agency Medical Repatriation Assistance Program’ for Overseas Filipinos .
Magsino cited Joint Memorandum Circular 2017-0001, issued on June 16, 2017 which created the IMRAP with the objective of instituting an integrated system and process flow on medical repatriation of OFs and OFWs, to harmonize existing procedures, and to formalize inter-agency coordination and cooperation among participating government agencies.
“However, since the issuance of JMC No. 2017-0001, the Department of Migrant Workers has been established and many lessons have been learned from the experiences of past global public health crises and from the technologically evolving work settings abroad with health implications, which necessitate an assessment of the program and its implementing guidelines to keep them in step with the current realities and challenges of medical repatriation involving OFs and OFWs,” Magsino said.
Additionally, Magsino said she wants to assess the implementation of DOH Department Order 2023-0003, which provides guidelines for the establishment of ‘Dedicated Wards for OFWs’ in selected DOH hospitals.
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